This week Four Corners journeys deep into the Papua New Guinean jungle to uncover the confronting truth about the carbon trade.
In the race to curb catastrophic climate change, prominent Australian businesses have been enthusiastic customers of carbon credits. They've been offsetting their emissions by buying credits from companies promising to stop exploitative timber harvesting, whilst lifting locals out of poverty.
But reporter Stephen Long has found that there is a vast chasm between what is marketed and what is really happening on the ground.
In a month-long trip, the team travelled to some of the most isolated villages in Papua New Guinea. They uncovered environmental devastation in the very areas one company claimed to be protecting and indigenous landowners angry at unfulfilled promises.
Long asks, who will really benefit from the carbon trade?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-13/carbon-colonialism/101968870
In the race to curb catastrophic climate change, prominent Australian businesses have been enthusiastic customers of carbon credits. They've been offsetting their emissions by buying credits from companies promising to stop exploitative timber harvesting, whilst lifting locals out of poverty.
But reporter Stephen Long has found that there is a vast chasm between what is marketed and what is really happening on the ground.
In a month-long trip, the team travelled to some of the most isolated villages in Papua New Guinea. They uncovered environmental devastation in the very areas one company claimed to be protecting and indigenous landowners angry at unfulfilled promises.
Long asks, who will really benefit from the carbon trade?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-13/carbon-colonialism/101968870
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Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
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Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
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Climate justice = Trans rights
Climate justice = Trans rights
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Why I no longer celebrate International Women’s Day
Instead of collective and confrontational resistance, we now celebrate individual women’s achievements in capitalist, neoliberal ways
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GREEN COLONIALISM: Israeli Parks That Erase and Displace
"Green colonialism describes how some organizations, policies, or programs harm the land and rights of indigenous peoples in the name of environmental protection or climate change mitigation, reinforcing colonial legacies.
IN PALESTINE:
Israel uses parks, nature reserves, and forests to conceal the ruins of depopulated Palestinian villages, expropriate land, and curtail Palestinian access and development.[...]"
Source: VisualizingPalestine (Link)
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#media #infographic #informational #antiracism #palestine #international #link
"Green colonialism describes how some organizations, policies, or programs harm the land and rights of indigenous peoples in the name of environmental protection or climate change mitigation, reinforcing colonial legacies.
IN PALESTINE:
Israel uses parks, nature reserves, and forests to conceal the ruins of depopulated Palestinian villages, expropriate land, and curtail Palestinian access and development.[...]"
Source: VisualizingPalestine (Link)
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#media #infographic #informational #antiracism #palestine #international #link
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THERE ARE SOME in Africa who argue that having a valuable resource is not necessarily a curse. They say that nature's wealth is a blessing and that the curse happens only in relation to how resources are grabbed, owned, extracted and utilised. In other words, the curse is located firmly in the social structure of the world.
Let us start with a caveat about the word 'resource', which implies that nature's wealth is a bounty, ready for corporate robbery. But we as humans frame this dilemma of extraction incorrectly if we don't point out the intrinsic right of nature to survive on its own terms. Most importantly, we are part of Mother Earth, not apart from her. Her rights to exist and reproduce the conditions for all species' existence are not to be violated.
-Nnimmo Bassey, How to cook a continent.
Let us start with a caveat about the word 'resource', which implies that nature's wealth is a bounty, ready for corporate robbery. But we as humans frame this dilemma of extraction incorrectly if we don't point out the intrinsic right of nature to survive on its own terms. Most importantly, we are part of Mother Earth, not apart from her. Her rights to exist and reproduce the conditions for all species' existence are not to be violated.
-Nnimmo Bassey, How to cook a continent.
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Dismantling cis-heteronormativity is essential to the fight for climate justice.
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